Food News You Need to Know Before You Eat Tomorrow

Every afternoon we compile the most important info Delish readers need to know—from breaking news and hazardous recalls to trending food stunts and new menu items at your favorite restaurants.

Pinkberry boldly adds ice cream to fro-yo lineup

The brand notorious for its "health-conscious" tangy frozen yogurt is now adding soft-serve ice cream to its stores—for a limited time, anyway. From June 3 through September 2, you can ask for the brand's new Pinkbee's low-fat milk ice cream drizzled with honey and topped with honeycomb. "Pinkbee's is a deliciously rich and creamy treat with such a craveable taste. It's the perfect indulgence," Kate Unger, senior vice president of marketing for Kahala Brands (parent company of Pinkberry), said in a press release.

IHOP punches up its pancakes with tropical island flavors

The chain known for its famous flapjacks is adding some seriously summery toppings to its breakfast lineup, including passionfruit, banana-macadamia, and pineapple. With the addition of "Paradise Pancakes," IHOP is nodding to its origin: brother-founders Jerry and Al Lapin thought up the idea for their restaurant while eating breakfast on vacation in Hawaii. The new lineup includes strawberry-passionfruit flapjacks layered with cheesecake, strawberries, and passionfruit syrup; banana-macadamia nut pancakes loaded with sliced bananas, drizzled in butter-rum sauce, and showered in toasted macadamia nuts; and pineapple upside down pancakes filled with grilled pineapple, butter-rum sauce, and a maraschino cherry—all with whipped cream on top.

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Scientists just discovered how to reverse liver damage from drinking

It's no surprise that when we drink booze, our livers get a little damaged. Typically that vital organ can regenerate so you can keep on sipping in the future. But sometimes the damage can be pretty bad. That's where a new study from the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) comes in: Researchers have developed a virus that attacks damaged damaged liver cells until they repair themselves. So far, the research has only been conducted on mice and "the number of new cells was relatively small," however it was still "sufficient to reduce fibrosis and improve liver function." The study's senior author Holger Willenbring, MD, PhD, a professor of surgery at UCSF explains further: "Part of why this works is that the liver is a naturally regenerative organ, so it can deal with new cells very well. What we see is that the converted cells are not only functionally integrated in the liver tissue, but also divide and expand, leading to patches of new liver tissue." If this continues to prove successful, liver transplants may not be necessary. (And we can keep on raising our glasses.)

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Teen burns down grocery story after lighting a bag of chips on fire

Seriously, we wish we were kidding. In one of the most idiotic stories to ever come across our desks, two teens in Ontario, Canada set a bag of potato chips ablaze and put them back on the shelf at Longo's Supermarket around 7:30 p.m. on Sunday. As you can imagine, the combination of oil and flames then led to the entire store going up in smoke. "Literally we blinked twice and the whole aisle, the whole shelf area, is engulfed in flames," one witness told Global News. The local news site also reports that a 15-year-old from the town of Bolton and a 14-year-old from Vaughan have been charged with arson, which caused more than $2 million in damages.